Fool," said my muse to me. "Look in thy heart and write.

Scoffing cometh not of wisdom.

The heavens do not send good haps in handfuls; but let us pick out our good by little, and with care, from out much bad, that still our little world may know its king.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head than opinion by authority, like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor the fasts.

Who will ever give counsel, if the counsel be judged by the event, and if it be not found wise, shall therefore be thought wicked?